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From the ceremony's program: the monument had begun to crumble by the time the American School for the Deaf sold its Hartford campus to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company (i.e., The Hartford), and so the school decided to dismantle and store the monument in a barn in West Hartford. The monument was moved to storage on the school's West Hartford campus in 1954. In 2016, the school hired Francis Miller to assess the current state of the monument. In 2019, a school alumna provided a major donation to the school, and that contribution funded the renovation and restoration of the monument.
Miller preserved the original marble elements that remained intact and then replaced the missing elements with granite that matched to original monument. Steven Petersen, a deaf artist in Minnesota, used a cast provided by Miller to create a new bronze relief based on the orginal design -- this is the cast of Gallaudet spelled in the manual alphabet.
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